No need to get a residence permit to do a research project on Bonaire: Dutch can stay on the island 180 days per year, for other EU countries this is 90 days.

Transportation:
Bonaire is a fairly small island of 294 km2 without public transportation. Arranging transportation is, therefore, essential. A bicycle can be a cheap option but with the warm weather, bad roads, and diving equipement you have to carry you have to buy/rent a car. Cars have a wide variety of prices. Once you are on the island there are plenty of opportunities to buy one second hand, or you could contact a student that is there before you and ask if you can buy from them.

Bonaire has lots of shops, including well equiped supermarkets, hardware stores, toiletries -> HOWEVER things are fairly expensive on Bonaire (everythings has to be imported) so you could save some money

the procedure includes getting approval at your local university via standard forms of you examination board.

“vakcode” and name of the courses can be found at the AEW-studyguide, for internships “AEW-704..” and for a thesis (or research project) “AEW-804..”, the last 2 digits will be the # ECTS agreed for your project.

You need a copy of your passport and a proof of payment of tuition fees (can by requested via the student service desk of your university), a proof of English language proficiency (e.g. a “VWO diploma”)

For a thesis you also need permission of the examinination board of the WUR (examiningboard.lifesciences at wur.nl)

When registration is complete, you will receive an inlog for WURnet, then you can register for the potential other courses that you will follow via: https://ssc.wur.nl/student/

Marjolijn Christianen

Assistant Professor @WUR, Blogs about fieldwork & events during her current research projects on sea turtles in the Dutch Caribbean, on food webs and ecosystem restoration in the Wadden Sea & about her completed PhD project on seagrass & green turtle grazing. She also provides practical info on her previous fieldwork site: Derawan in East-Kalimantan, Indonesia